A forced motherhood that affects women's finances and emotional well-being - says star lawyer Gloria Allred - will be the result of Texas' new strict law that only allows abortions until the sixth week, when most women do not even know they are pregnant.
- Women are not baby machines or baby factories that should be forced to give birth.
That is unacceptable, she tells the Foreign Office.
Did himself illegal abortion
Gloria Allred has pursued women's rights issues throughout her legal career.
When she was in her 20s in the 1960s, she was raped by a man she was dating and close to dying after the illegal abortion she performed after the rape.
- Fortunately, my life was saved.
The nurse said I had a lesson.
And I had, but that was not the lesson she thought I should get.
I learned that abortions need to be safe and legal.
A few years later, the law Roe v Wade was pushed through in the United States and secured American women's abortion rights, a law that in recent years has been increasingly questioned.
"Women will risk their lives"
With Texas now restricting abortion rights and more states looking to follow, Gloria Allred believes women will begin to resort to as desperate methods as she did 60 years ago.
- Prohibition does not mean that abortions cease.
It only means that women risk their lives to have unsafe abortions.
Of course, women who have money will be able to travel to other states, but sometimes poor women do not even have the money to travel to another city, let alone another state.
Click on the video to hear Gloria Allred tell what she thinks Texas law will lead to. And see more of the interview in the Foreign Office: Yes to life! on SVT Play from 7.30 pm and on SVT2 at 9.45 pm tonight.